Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust